Yifat Bezalel

Education

1998-2002      BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

 

Solo Exhibitions

2013                Motherless, Drawing Now art fair, Paris, with Gowen Contemporary

2012                Conclusion of a Timeless Tale, VIDA Museum, Borgholm, Sweden, curated by Sandra                                -Weil

                          Sought City, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Roma

2011                The Gate of Unknown, 1st edition of The Others art fair, Turin, with Gowen Contemporary,                          - Geneva

2010                 Vitam Impendere Vero, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva

                          You Are in Elysium and You're Already Dead, Artist’s Studios, Tel Aviv, curated by                                         - Dr. Vered Zafran Gani

                          From This World To The World, commissioned work, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv

2009                 Ulysses-Alices, Inga Gallery,Tel- Aviv

2008                 Ne'ereget (To Be Woven), Artist’s House, Tel Aviv, curated by Orly Hoffman.

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013                 Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice Biennale, Venice;
                          Israel Now (Reinventing the Future), curated by Micol di Veroli, MACRO Museo di Arte                                 Contemporanea di Roma, Rome;
2012                 Home Affairs, curated by Liliana Orbach, Centro de Artes CMA, Colegio Mayor Argentino,                           - Madrid
2011-12           Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool travelling to Museo d'Arte Moderna e                                                       Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and Kunsthalle Hamburg;
2009                 Paper Works, Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem;
                          Explosion. Art Contemporain Israélien, Geneva, curated by Keren Bar-Gil and Mirav Katri;
                          10 Gallery, Rehovot, Israel, curated by Carmit Bluemenzon;
                          Lolita, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv;
2008                 Two Sides: International Video Artists, Stockholm Culture House, Stockholm, curated by                             - Sandra Weil;
2007                 Traces III. The Third Biennal for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem Artist House, Jerusalem,                                 - curated by Dalia Manor;
                          Practice of Art (BFAMI), Sotheby’s London, London, curated by Freda Uziel;
                          Reality, Meyuhas Gallery, Tel-Aviv, curated by Ma’ayan Shelef;
                          Homemade 3: Meeting with Jewish Culture, Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, Poland;
2006                Women Short (Artist), Makor Gallery, New York;
                          Videozone: 3rd International Video Biennal, CCA, Tel Aviv, curated by Sergio Adelstein;
2005                 Video Art without Video, Tal Ester Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by Eitan Buganim;
                          Middle East North West: Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israeli Ambassador’s House,                                     - London, curated by Keren Bar-Gil;

Collections

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Important private collections, Geneva, London, Tel Aviv, Zurich.

 

Bibliography

Globes, Hagit Peleg Rotem, "The Artists of the World Have United", Israel, May 29, 2013
Personal Structures, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Bembo, Venice Biennale, 2013, Venice
Baromotern, 14 July 2012
The Guardian, 2 Nov. 2011
Ha’aretz - July 2010
ARTFORUM –May 2009
The Jerusalem Post – April 2009

 

Awards

2010                 Special Projects in the Art Fund, Rabinovich Foundation and the Tel Aviv-Yafo                                               - Municipality.